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To be prepared to do many of the activities featured on this site you need to be physically and mentally  fit. That is not to say you can't have a few extra pounds, but a whole lot extra will add to your difficulty level. (Being active is a great way to shed some unwanted weight and have fun doing it.) Even if you are slim, there is some necessary preparation. You need to build up your endurance level; meaning that if you exercise 40 minutes push it to 120 minutes on a weekend day. Of course if your exercise routine is something other than stationary, you will enjoy it more and the body will respond. Consider Hiking, Cycling , Mountain Biking,  Swimming,  Rock Climbing (even if it is at the mall) Kayaking, Running, Rowing, Surfing, Canyoneering or any of the other activities we feature as alternate forms of exercise. Getting fit by participation and not by drudgery.         Stretching: Before you engage in any activity or even exercising, you need to stretch. In fact you should stretch even on days when you are not participating in a strenuous activity. How you do it is important and surprisingly most people do it improperly. See our page on Stretching.      Don't be a smoker. Smoking is not only life threatening in itself. but it reduces the efficiency of your lungs.  That inhibits your ability to excel at the activities of your choice.  See the  American Cancer Society's "Kick the Habit" page.

Weight control is one of the biggest reason that we exercise regardless of how we do it. This is such a large subject that we have developed what is known as the "cool diet supplement" . This should be added to any diet that you are now on, or considering, or even applied by it's self. This is a realistic way to enhance your weight loss efforts. Nothing to buy, no memberships required. Check it out.

While weight adjustments go a long way to improving our self image. There are tremendous physical and possibly even financial benefits that go along with being fit. Your heart does not need to work so hard to supply blood flow to the bulk mass when you lose it, and with proper diet and exercise the circulatory system may improve, which allows the blood to flow unobstructed (or at least less obstructed) through your arteries, and thereby also reducing the workload placed upon your heart. If your heart fails .... well you figure it out. Sure if you live through a heart failure and your resulting condition is not degenerative, you may regain some quality of life, if you discipline yourself, but no amount of medical intervention will truly give you the same result had you avoided the failure in the first place; this is only if you live through a failure. Let's work on that!!!!

Remember even the simplest of exercises can be beneficial.

Looks like an exercise for those get no daily physical exercise and with more free time than you have, right. You would be surprised how taxing and rewarding such a simple little thing like stair stepping may be. If you can do simple routines like it at home religiously, then there may be no need to enroll in a gym, but if not, then being with others may lend some support and who knows you may make friends, thereby giving you an extra reward. Now this is not an article on how to stair step, but rather it is an example of what you can do and should do to the point that there is an increase in your heart rate, and maintain this for a few minutes then a few minutes longer and possibly more rapidly the next time.

Here is where yousay that you are active in your daily chores that should account for something. Sure it does. Great that you are on the go from the time you get up until you crash into bed only to do it again. BUT is there a regular amount of accelerated heart function? Do you reach a point where you have to breath deeply for 10 or 20 minutes? do you involve all your muscle and stress them in various ways, not in the same old routine (this applies to you who go to the gym as well). I would be the last to belittle a person for the amount of work they put in during the normal course of a days work be it external or at the home. Just look at how you are doing what you do. Can you vary it and d it a different way, work some different muscles, or the same muscles but to a greater extent or from a different approach. For true fitness you need to be able to perform in any given situation whatever the demands that may put on you and not only if it is exactly what you have repeatedly conditioned your body to doing. Try reaching beyond a comfortable range, lifting at an angle or outstretched (use caution when introducing new maneuvers).

Equipment is always nice to have - only if it is used, otherwise it just takes up room, hurts your pocket book and become a bone contention by gnawing  away at you whenever you bump into it or have to dust it. A source of AGGRAVATION you don't need. Get some if you will use it and if you already have some then dust it of and put it to work. It is an investment that goes to waste if it is not used to the fullest of it's capacities.

If you look around you. will see that you have plenty of work out equipment. Yeah you. You don't have to be cluttered with bar bells and exercise machines, although they are nice, but there are many things surrounding you daily that make excellent workout supplements. How much do you weigh? You can use your own weight. Doing pushups flat from the floor, or try putting you feet up on a chair or steps so your weight is forward. You can do dips by lifting you weight between two chairs with your workout partners or kids sitting in them and if no partners then wedge them so they will not tip. Do leg lifts on floor with your hands under you neck, at you sides, or while lifting a heavy book in each, from the sides or overhead. Grasp the top of you door and do leg lifts and try to get them more than horizontal.  Do crunches by placing you toes under a bed, then without any leg restraint, touch one elbow to each opposite knees. Remember to vary every exercise or your muscles become cast in a particular manner and never fully develop, and do not forget to limber up and stretch both at the beginning and end f every exercise and during if necessary. You will feel a limit to your range of motion which is an indication that a stretch is in order.  You may think that you can not develop a rock hard body at home with no equipment but you may know that the prison systems removed the exercise weights because the  inmates could easily over power the guards. Did that stop the inmates from bulking up on a prison diet that would leave most persons under nourished. No, they employed what they have: their own weight, stack chairs, tables, gravity, each other, reams of legal documents, water bags (garbage bags lining their personal laundry bags and then filled with water), resistance training (pushing or puling against immobile objects), running, lunges, and isometrics, and they still left prison (well some of them) in better shape than when they came in. The absence of weight training equipment served no purpose and in fact may have been a mistake, because authorized equipment gave the inmates a structured and accepted form of exercise, self discipline, and occupation of their time (as opposed to other illegal activities) and gave them one less thing to be resentful of. So think like an inmate and devise what you need from what you have, you will be able to pat yourself on the back (literally) because of the ingenuity you employ, as well as you will look forward to each day and when you collapse at night, you will have the physical tiredness needed to get a good nights sleep.

For your consideration:
The more you get to do a sport any sport, the more you will enjoy it. We have found that being prepared to leave at a moment notice will increase the number of time that you will actually get out and do it. Ultimately the best way to be prepared is to have all the necessary gear already stored in a "gear trailer". This is a trailer dedicated to this purpose. READ ON.

Remember to visit our activities pages and get out there. This will definitely be the best way to become or remain physically fit.

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